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kettle hole

n
(Physical Geography) a round hollow formed by the melting of a mass of buried ice. Often shortened to: kettle
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ket′tle hole`


n.
1. a deep, kettle-shaped depression in glacial drift.
2. pothole (def. 2).
[1880–85]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.kettle hole - (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
kettle
geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
hollow, hole - a depression hollowed out of solid matter
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